Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: prospects and problems for teleosemantics / Graham Macdonald, David Papineau -- Language, modularity, and evolution / Kim Sterelny -- Mental representation, naturalism, and teleosemantics / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Representation, teleosemantics, and the problem of self-knowledge / Fred Dretske -- The epistemological objection to opaque teleological theories of content / Frank Jackson -- Useless content / Ruth Millikan -- On thinking of kinds: a neuroscientific perspective / Dan Ryder -- Teleosemantics and the consumer / Mohan Matthen -- Content for cognitive science / Karen Neander -- Representation and unexploited content / Robert Cummins ... [et al.] -- Fearing fluffy: the content of an emotional appraisal / Carolyn Price.

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